New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-08
SOME BUSINESS ASPECTS.

Blockades are growing more frequent In broadway,
and delays to passengers Jacob Sharps late railway
are veIatously common But blockades are good
signs for Broadway and unerringly point TO the re-
vivaI OF business In that thoroughfare. They were
Seldom there during the years between tho COM
pict Of the elevated roads and the hasty constrnc
tiOn Uf the broadway road Those years marked
business hatus for Broadway but the indications are
that it Is at end.
The dry goods district along broadway IA particu
larry active Just now though the season Is usually
duh onc-coming Just between the spring and fall ac
tvitie in this trade The sidewalks OF Broadway ana
the streets In this district well nigh block
AIDED daily with dry goods boxes and not empty Ones
either.
had occasion to notice similar activities the past
week in Boston and Providence; and even Newport
had put unwonted business aspect for the sum-
mer season. i suppose the presence OF the yachts
there had something to do with the latter; but am
told that the gay summer harbor moro alive with
trading vessels of every kind than It has been to
be In years Tho great factories at Providence IKE
the great engine builder, and william
Corliss. the safe manufacturor-wero ~, run n,
shipping. loading and unloading, and saw hardly a
place ON the newfoundland coast that hadn't Its coat
OIL for work and not for summerng merely
Speaking Of the Corliss safe 1t looks II this new
system of safe making seriously threatening tho
lamnated safe interest The manufacturers openly and
boldly denounce all square, amnatcd safes as not
burglar proof, and Boston, Chicago, New-York and
ban-rs Of all The largo cities are sending committees
to the Cor s. Works to get ocular proof of what tho
company SAYS. A recent decision renders directors
responsible for losses by burgaies of safes, and this
makes bankers lite active La investigating the sub
iect
Boston manufacturers, too, are very active In tho
big factory of tho American Electric Manufacturing
Company In Boston found their facilities taxed to
the utmost 1t Is the same In their works here by
the way found that rivals OF this company In Boston
were taki"g mean adVa uage OF the winding up oil
the American Electric Light Company of this city to
convey tho Idea that 1t the American Electric
Manufacturing Company. There was never any con-
nection between the two, direct Or remote Tho
latter is substantial, busy and regular quarterly
dividend paying company. SO bold and serious have
that underSt aud suits likely to follow Among
tho substantial directors OF the American Manniactu
ing Company are II Hyde, Levi NJ. Bates, Rowland
n Hazard exOovernOr C.ailcs Foster of Ohio Gov
Camr III ,nr NeV-l Ork Clearing House and others.
These sufficient to counteract the stories put
forth to tniGrc.
a story is told Of rctOrt gwen by PRESIDENT
Arthur Indiana man who, In trying TO say
something agreeable, had mana. ell to say something
quito the contrary. 1t was toward the end Of the
Presidential tenn. The Hoosier had Gale at the
White HOu-e and was about 10 depart Il presume
you getting ready TO step down and out" sad he
D. the President "Out but not down. was General
Arthur's quiet Response. up 10 the people
Colonel John A. Mccaun, the wen-known comic
opera manager, by the way was soldier In the Con
fe crate army. lie has single answer to every one
who attempts to chan him about the rebel hags.
Confound your mpudence,' he says In his big voiced
and cool naturcd way who made this country any
wayl Whore would the developed greatness have
II hadn't elled Who gave you fellows up
North chance % GIT rich and rob each Otherl Who
enabled Grant to leave tho tanners store Who gave
Phil sheridan a chancel Wouldn't Sherman still
have been the frontier mixing with Indians
but for rs Why. gentlemen, have made you
You can't US" II Is In much the salno
,,raH hat he ~ ahput
citizenship: i am an Irishman by birth" no ssys
when that question Il raised, "a VTgnan by the
baptism VI Uuh and American citizen by sub
Iugaton. But blessings Hight tho Starspanged
Banner ono flag Is good enough for Us all"